Merry Christmas

Christmas Party Highlights

Merry Christmas everyone, sorry about the repeats, I'm helping Santa wrap presents and I'm a bit tired. It was good to see everyone again. Trouble is, it seemed like the time flew by and I did not get much time with you. Ben should be home today so maybe we could all get together around New Years. Let me know.

The big surprise of the night, the FIRST one to arrive was KRISTIN! Now I never would have guessed. Great palm reading Kristin, I loved the ghost stories, way cool, I guess as long as it doesn't happen to you.

Jenn, I loved the high brow, intellectual discussion, you are a gem. Hey Kendra, you are quite the young lady, I see new sides to you every time I see you. I am setting up the office for Merrimack Matters and we definately will be doing more fun stuff. Larry and Bernadette, it's good to hear I am not the only one that feels that way, I think Larry needs a teaching keyboard for Christmas!

Eddie is now a seasoned pro after working for FOX, before you know it, he will be eating free meals and riding in a limo. Oh well, we can all say we knew him when.

Nat, thanks for the present and always remember you are special and deserve only the best.

Kelly and Brittey, I got some nice pictures of you for the web site, send me a bio when you can. Just a couple of sentences about you.

Joe is a great help and I hope to get the trailer done by the end of January. The website is daddysgirlmovie.net. Meagan, let me know if you want to be in Merrimack Matters. You can try it out to see if you like it. If you become a regular, you get way cool embroidered shirts and do lots of fun stuff.

If I don't have your picture, let me know. As you can see, my camera can do quite a nice job. Call me to arrange to come over and get me a bio too so we can add it to the website.

It was great to see you guys again, thanks for coming. We really missed those who could not make it. Sacha we missed you, poor bobette crachet, the post office scrooge got to you. Oh well, we just love to send those packages. Our bad.

Well it's getting late,
Have a great Christmas and stay tunned for more stuff.
Dennis

Zak's getting ready to tour

If you are interested in singing at the Christmas Party, just ask Zak to turn out a tune. He is not much for Christmas music but plays some mean Jimmy Hendrix and his Stairway to Heaven is just inspired. Zak also plays the sax (a real jazzman). Jeremy is learning the piano and he should be able to bang out some Christmas music. Jeremy learns to play by ear. He hears it and sits down and plays, way cool. Eddie will be there with his girlfriend and he plays the piano so we should be able to have a sing a long if people are up to it. We have lots of talented people so anyone else who wants to grab a guitar or the piano, just jump in.

Ben will not make the Christmas Party. He will be in the week after Christmas. He was mugged and his cell phone was stolen along with everything else he had on him. Not the fun in the sun he expected but he is doing well in school and is no worse for the wear from his scrap. Ben wanted to pass his Christmas wishes to everyone and hopes to get together around New Years.

Lauren did a marvelous performance in her school play. I sure wish I could have gone, especially after hearing about how great she was. Sophie is currently performing in the Christmas Carol at the Palace and will come over with Kevin later in the evening (after the Friday performance). For those of you who have been out of touch for a while on things, Sophie and Kevin are going out together and it appears they met "on the set" of Daddy's Girl so we have already spun off some good things. Jeremy saw Sophie as part of a school field trip; his verdit: She was great!

Angie is in several projects and unfortunately she won't be able to make the party. Angie, if you have a chance, I would love for you to come over for a visit and some coccoa.

Joe is feeling better and my system is working much better but I have not had time to do all the tests yet as I am trying to get all my work done by Christmas. Joe has the website set up and I need to get glam shots of everyone and bio's as well. I am looking forward to getting the trailer up and then on to the movie. Joe will help with the editing so I now have some of the best talent out there at my side.

I am looking forward to meeting everyone again. I have lots of projects going on at once. I am also looking to get Merrimack Matters rolling again after the first of the year and I am almost done redoing my office so we can have out meetings there. I will also set up an editing station so we can updload once a shoot is done. Matt is our master editor but as I have done with the previous generation of Merrimack Matters, I expect everyone to do all aspects of production. For those of you who don't know, Merrimack Matters is a cable access show that I have been doing for over 5 years. You can be a regular or just help with one or two shows. It is a lot of fun and a great way to learn all the things that go on behind the scenes that make it all work. For you out of towners like Lauren, Jordan, and Bekka (just for example), you could come and work on a show or even a show segment. As Sacha says, it's all good. BTW, I can definately see Sacha doing some segments.

I am also looking into doing something fun once the movie is done. This will probably be in May or June. The Boston Film Festival is the first 2 weeks in September. Then on to SNOB (Somewhere North of Boston-in Concord) in October and then Sundance.

Well back to work, See you all on Friday. We have a lot of catching up to do. Kristin lost her phone so if you did not hear back from her, that is probably why. She should be there at he party.
Merry Christmas,
Dennis

Christmas Party Update

Merry Christmas everyone. I am working hard but find each day moving faster than the next. Before we know it, the Christmas Party will be here. It has been a while since we all were together and it will be great to catch up. Ben and Eddie should be in and we can hear about their adventures in Callie.

Some tidbits: For those of you who want to use the hot tub, don't forget to bring your suits.

I also have a lost and found bag of stuff (earings, a baby doll, etc.)that has been left behind so please check that out.

For those of you who did not get a shirt, I have plenty extras so just ask.

Joe has taken ill so I am not sure if the trailer will be ready for the party but I have decided to relax and just do my best and go from there. I did purchase a camera for a new business I started for weddings. I will be doing video and still photography. The camera is awesome and will make incredible photos for the internet. Joe and I will be working on the daddy's girl website and I would like to get pictures of you and your bio's so wear something nice and I will grab each of you for a quick photo shoot against the green screen.

Sophie, Kendra, and Jenn will apreciate this next thing, I now have over 100 feet of green screen and the stands to hold them up quickly and easily. It will not help for all the hard work you put in but it will come in handy for the next time. I also will use it for the next movie and the video wedding business because I intend to do things that no one else is doing!

The party is on Friday December 23rd. It will start at 6:30 and go to whenever. I will announce when the premeire will be and the location once I have these in the can. See you soon.
Dennis

Waiting, Waiting,, It can be frustrating. I know people want to see the movie (so do I) and I suspect some of you have lost faith in me. Well I have had a lot of sleepless nights over this and I now know there was nothing I could do as the current program does not support what I was trying to do. Talk about hitting your head on the wall! So many times I just said to myself, do it on the other program, it is more simple but that is the problem, everyone worked too hard for mediocre. You all deserve better than that and that is why I kept at it.

Well, I finally got an update for my software which will hopefully fix the problems I have had. I also went to an AVID conference and met one of the software designers who is coming over to my house to help me repair the software. Thank you Joe!

This whole editing experience has been a nightmare. I won't bore you with the details, the exciting part is I found a person who is willing to help me. I can't wait to get moving once the system is stabilized. Ok for you tech people, most of the problem has been with the 24P 3:2 pull down, out of sync sound and video and overwriting of batch digitized files.

The first goal will be to get the wedsite up with a trailer. I hope to do this by Christmas.

Hang in there guys.

Dennis

get on board

Well the trailer is coming along nicely. I thought it would be nice to sing Christmas Carols and can set up a speaker system and music if you guys are not afraid of microphones. We don't have to do this but it is an option. We still have to add the pictures and this picture does not do it justice, in person it looks really cool. Kudos to Jenn, Matt, and Kendra for all their hard work.

Now for this Sunday, we meet at my house at 11:30 for breakfast. The Parade is from 2-4 PM and we need to be in the Commons parking lot by about 1:15 the latest. If you are busy that day and can get there by 1:50, you can jump on the float. Get ready for some fun.

Oh BTW, I got several different flavors of hot coccoa including carmel, rasberry, white chocolate, hazelnut, and others. I also have regular and diet coccoa. Let's have a nice warm breakfast so we can sing loud on the float.

Hope to see you guys soon.

Dennis

PS, of course I got the marshmellos and whipped cream,,, duh!!!